| 单词 | sackcloth |
| 例句 | Suddenly a gust of wind puffed through the sackcloth covering a hole in the window; the candle flickered but did not go out. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me think how all women are the same — silk or sackcloth, all the same. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z It wore a crude straw hat and a pair of sackcloth pants. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Likely she would run through the fields dressed in sackcloth, hunting hyssop amongst the wild bulls, if not obligated to the higher plane of Motherhood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The family has many fifty-pound sackcloth bags of rice hidden in their corner of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were three, all crammed in the front seat, each with stringy hair covering her eyes, bony hands, and a charcoal-colored sackcloth dress. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A piece of sackcloth covered the bottom half of the window where several panes were missing, the result of a rock hurled from the street one night long ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The first year you wanted to look pretty for me, so you wore a nice dress to the fields. By the time we finished, it looked like the sackcloth the yuccas were in!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are the tone cults, of course, dressing in sackcloth and worshiping sonic vibrations—but like so many things in our world, they seek to imitate what once was. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Wrapped in sackcloth and tied with twine, there was a bright piece of paper with my name fixed to the top, waving in the wind like a little flag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I wrapped up the remains of the cooked pig in a piece of sackcloth, and Denna made a few trips with the water bottle and doused the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Catholic saints practiced self-mortification, such as wearing itchy sackcloth, to encourage humility and to create greater compassion for the suffering of others. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Wearing a sackcloth and ranting into a microphone that the end of civilization is near, he’s the quintessential unrepentant 1960s hippie petrified by modern humankind’s self-destructive ways. We’re doomed, happily: Ron Litman’s protest act in ‘Armageddon’ at Fringe The sequence “Station Island,” from 1985, put advice in the mouth of James Joyce: “don’t be so earnest, / so ready for the sackcloth and the ashes . . . You’ve listened long enough. Now strike your note.” How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The sweetness and open appeal of “My Country ’Tis of Thee” is gone, replaced by weariness and determination, the voice seemingly de-gendered by a sackcloth of misery. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Please understand, I’m not a wraith in sackcloth among the tinseled brides of fortune. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z A striking number of free-market economists, worshippers at the feet of Milton Friedman and his Chicago colleagues, have lined up to don sackcloth and ashes and swear allegiance to the memory of Keynes. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z The donning of sackcloth and ashes for this once-mighty art form is an annual ritual. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z A bumpkin in medieval sackcloth smokes a Lucky Strike. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets – review 2013-04-06T23:05:12Z Gareth Pugh’s spring 2015 collection, unveiled in New York in September, is a kind of hymn to morbidity, his runway populated by pale models in hooded sackcloth or spooky black gowns trailing weeds. The Subject of Death Plays a Part in Popular Culture 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z “Your worst enemy is your body,” Benedetta is told when she arrives at the convent as a child and must exchange her fine silks for a scratchy sackcloth shift. Falling Back in Love With Cannes 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z There are giant burned books of lead and paper; Jacob’s Ladder, also in lead; and Lilith’s dresses in sackcloth. Art Review: A Spectacle With a Message 2010-11-19T06:45:00Z She also participated in a film for the first time, as an extra in “The Shadow of the Raven,” a sackcloth-and-scabbards saga set in the 11th century. Noomi Rapace Arrives in Hollywood, by Way of Outer Space 2012-05-27T14:10:42Z All the sackcloth and flashing blades you can eat plus suspiciously well-groomed maidens. Tim Marlow on Gaugin 2010-10-16T05:45:00Z You can argue that refusing to apologize for or hide your body under a sackcloth is a feminist act. Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The antithesis of recession-appropriate sackcloth and ashes, prints exert a strong emotional pull. Colorful Clothes as an Economic Indicator 2010-04-14T23:54:00Z Photograph: Rex Christian Bale ended up as Batman, of course, but Nolan did use Murphy as the movie’s villain, Jonathan Crane, a spindly-limbed psychopath who dressed up in sackcloth and called himself the Scarecrow. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z I would absolutely beg on my hands and knees in the Senate chamber or anywhere else, in sackcloth and ashes and on broken glass, if I thought it would help. Column: 'What are we doing?' After the Texas school shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy speaks for us all 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z It would be safe to amble down dark alleys or across parks, whether sporting a diamond-encrusted miniskirt and platinum noise-cancelling headphones or a sackcloth boiler suit and an air of high alert. Sabina Nessa killing: Does following the 'rules' keep women safe? 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The source added that the EU wasn't in "sackcloth and ashes" after it temporarily suspended agreements made as part of the Brexit deal last Friday. UK and EU in "constructive discussions" over NI trade row 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Belichick began appearing before the news media in hoodies that were even more tattered than usual: the emperor now a penitent in sackcloth, muttering about past accomplishments and making uncharacteristic excuses. The Fall of the House of Belichick 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Saying that he remained confident that Mr. Biden would ultimately win the presidency, he joked, “I am wearing sackcloth and ashes.” Deprived of a Quick Decision, Democrats Seek a Narrower Path 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Their members vow to occasionally put on the burlap costumes they say resemble the sackcloth worn by biblical prophets. As Africa’s COVID-19 cases rise, faith is put to the test 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Young men in dark suits danced in front, carrying a metal pole with a heart-shaped standard that had been wrapped in sackcloth, doused in kerosene and set alight. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The Bible describes how “the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood”. The forgotten French tapestry with lessons for our apocalyptic times 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z When everyone else was done, we got special treatment and were swaddled in earth-colored robes and sashes, blouses, vests, sackcloth and primitive sandals. ‘Game of Thrones’: I was an extra in that King's Landing crowd scene 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Though it would be nice to see an outpouring of public apologies from those who were snookered by Barr, I am not anticipating a run on sackcloth. Opinion | William Barr has shamelessly corrupted the debate over the Mueller report 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Why not mandate Stitch Fix-style deliveries of sackcloth and ashes so that we may know that these people are truly humbled? Opinion | Blue-Apron-style replacement for SNAP is a marvelous idea 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Veganuary's Simon Winch thinks vegans are also shaking off an outmoded image of lentils and sackcloth. Tesco aims to make dough with vegan options 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In recalling such a sordid piece of news—now twenty years old today—I’m still left feeling what I did two decades ago when this story first broke: sackcloth and ashes. Remembering Christopher Drexler on what would have been his 20th birthday 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z On the wall across from me, there is a framed piece of muslin sackcloth printed with the words “Cafe de El Salvador.” A latte with a side of partisan politics 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But don’t panic. It’s not because the wheels somehow fell off the fashion bus, dooming us to a future of wearing sackcloth and ashes. Standout New York Fashion Week trends: shirtdresses, flare for the leg and a serious orange crush 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The countries on the periphery donned their sackcloth out of necessity, tightening belts and buying less from abroad than they produced at home. More spend, less thrift 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet beneath the sackcloth and leper’s feet, a shabby saint stirs. John Turturro shines in 'The Night Of' role that James Gandolfini had begun filming before his death 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Instead of buying yourself a new suit for the holiday, you would have to go around in sackcloth because of your duty toward those who have less than you. Objecting to the ‘season of giving’ 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “He used the sackcloth to line the gloves.” From humble Mexico City origins, boxing gloves of champions Upping the ante, he called on Sinn Fein leaders to don “sackcloth and ashes,” an Old Testament ritual for demonstrating repentance and shame. Protestant Firebrand Ian Paisley Dies Aged 88 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z To engage them is like walking onto a battlefield of steel and lead in nothing but sandals and a sackcloth, unarmed. HURT: An unfair trade for an undeserving deserter 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z So he gingerly bundled the 8,000 volumes in sackcloth, carefully stacked them in crates, then quietly moved them to a bunker in an undisclosed location. Saving Timbuktu’s Priceless Artifacts From Militants’ Clutches 2013-02-04T04:03:12Z But he does not appear to understand that the church of public opinion demands virtual sackcloth and ashes, the convincing performance of repentance and contrition. Why do we care if Lance apologizes? 2013-01-20T20:00:00Z Not everyone in the football world is inclined to put on the post-Olympics sackcloth and ashes, however. Football's back – but has it lost its swagger after London 2012? 2012-08-18T23:01:05Z At this rate, if Scotland votes yes to independence in 2014 then we will all be watching the skies in our sackcloths and ashes. Why does an uprising revolt so many Brits? 2012-07-07T23:06:00Z The immediate future is all sackcloth and ashes. Central banks: The twilight of the central banker 2012-06-26T17:28:31Z After all thy tonsures and chorales, thy credos and sackcloth, wilt thou admit the Evil One in the guise of a melody, in whose chromatic intervals lie dimpled cheek and sunny tress! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The mothers, wearing sackcloth, Tear the flesh from their cheeks, Wailing: “Where are my sons, where are my daughters?” Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z The city article of the Nineveh Times, if such a paper existed, would probably have described “sackcloth firm, with a tendency to rise.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The prince presented himself without guard, and without retinue: stopped in the second enclosure, he suffered himself to be stripped of his vestments and clothed in sackcloth. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z The friars reckoned it a profitable exchange, a most profitable exchange, to give their cloaks of serge or sackcloth for that of charity, which affords a much better and much more honorable covering. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z They were dressed in coarse black sackcloth habits, with the cowls drawn down over their heads. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Then Jacob put on sackcloth and ashes and mourned for Joseph many days. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z Let me go home in silence, to reflection, perhaps to sackcloth and ashes!” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z So that if you go you happen on but a sackcloth welcome. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z But even these late-comers weary after a time, and one by one disappear, till there comes a season when, without flowers, Nature seems to be humbled in sackcloth and ashes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The queen, poor martyr, was sitting in sackcloth and ashes while quaffing the cup of bitterness, and it behoved faithful subjects to don mourning. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z The branches are apparently fastened at the top with stringy threads, interwoven like a piece of coarse sackcloth; the pinnæ are of a deep glossy green, and, near the trunk, are often a foot long. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Shutting herself up for seven days in sackcloth and ashes, she threw her idols out of the window, and performed a strict penance. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z If he failed to compound for his crime, he had to appear before the coroner, clothed in sackcloth, confess his crime, and abjure the realm. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z Her dress was a dirty blue cotton gown, and under that a breech-cloth of dirty sackcloth. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z "An ardent, hot-headed man may be goaded by desperation to acts that he afterwards deplores in sackcloth and in ashes." The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z The skeletons within them were entire and undisturbed; they were enveloped in coarse sackcloth, which crumbled to dust on being touched. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z They neither dressed, nor made their beds, nor washed, nor saw visitors, nor shaved, nor cut their nails, and made their toilets with sackcloth and ashes. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Mr. Churchill said, in a speech at Sheffield: Whether we blame the belligerents or criticise the powers, or sit in sackcloth and ashes ourselves is absolutely of no consequence at the present moment.... The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z The Court, to testify its unwonted grief, put on sackcloth instead of white serge usually worn as mourning. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z Behind the coffin walks a person wrapped in sackcloth, suggestive of the cloth worn over their uniforms by members of the society of the Misericordia in Italy. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z On the left side of the skeleton were the remains of a crosier, and among the bones and around the skull were found fragments of sackcloth and of garments wrought with gold tissue. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z Or if the loved one silk or sackcloth wear, Or lie on down or dust, or rise to heaven? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It was the custom to spread out a sheet of sackcloth on the floor, and on this to sprinkle ashes in the shape of a cross. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Many of them trudge along on foot, grasping only the stout staff which one's mind associates with pilgrims; these give a true feeling of sackcloth and ashes. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z All are covered with sackcloth; even the mendicant is dressed in white—the whole procession is white. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z As a literary performance, this autobiography is remarkably unequal, a thing of rags and patches, some of which are of fine silk or velvet, others of rough sackcloth. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z It was horse-market day at the river-bed and the little bag of sackcloth containing the remainder of his savings bulged out his sash. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z We in gray thin stuff and roses,–sackcloth, I called it, and ashes of roses; for I mourn the loss of my Nan, and am not comforted. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z The first impulse of their leaders, and especially of Schurz, was to put on sackcloth, and go into retirement. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The apartment was a second recess larger than the first, shut in by hangings of sackcloth and furnished with rough seats and tables of unoiled cedar. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Presently a large piece of sackcloth was revealed, and this being lifted left visible below it another batch of loaves of the same sort as we had seen in the cart. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z You shall come and see the young gentleman, good Prue, as I say; and then you will repent in sackcloth and ashes for all that you have urged against him. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip ye and make ye bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities 2011-10-12T02:00:53.650Z If it had been the custom to wear sackcloth on the Opposition benches, and any ashes had been handy, he would undoubtedly have endeavoured to discover what secret consolation their use conveys. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z His gaunt frame was clad in sackcloth, and his long white hair and beard were blown in the wind. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Nestled in the northeast corner of the West Bank, al Hadidiya amounts to a cluster of sprawling sackcloth encampments which shelter families and goats from the fierce desert elements. In would-be Palestinian state, a dose of reality 2011-09-15T09:06:24Z Haman exchanged his wealth and dignities for a gallows; Mordecai exchanged his sackcloth for a royal robe. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z You were perfectly right; the thing I did was horrible, and I've bought my yards of sackcloth, my bushels of ashes. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.... Subconscious Religion 2011-08-22T02:00:58.937Z They are witnesses for Christ, and therefore their testimonies should be public, though their lot oftentimes be to witness in sackcloth. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z "A poor place, Bertha, a very poor and bare place! indeed as little able to keep out wind and weather as my sackcloth coat." Charles Dickens' Children Stories 2011-08-20T02:00:15.847Z I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Then came the “Dies Irae,” when the Southern Rachel sat in the ashes of her desolation and her homespun was sackcloth. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z He wore a long sackcloth hood; and might easily have been taken for a hermit. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z This dark period continued nigh about 1100 years, in which, though Christ's witnesses were very few, yet he had some witnessing and prophesying in sackcloth all the while. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z For three months an Englishman sits in sackcloth and ashes. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z The proud Amalekite fell from his lofty eminence, and the exiled Jew was lifted from his sackcloth and ashes and placed next the throne. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Must you see me howl in sackcloth and ashes before you believe me? The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z She is then sent to her room to dress in sackcloth of repentance and told to prepare to spend the night in the chapel. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z He neglected the offered help, went to Canossa, and, presenting himself before the gate barefoot and clad only in a shirt of sackcloth, he asked to be admitted and pardoned as a repentant sinner. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z "Also," said the hermit, "it were wise that ye should wear a sackcloth garment next your skin, for penance"; and in this also did Sir Bors as he was counseled. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2011-06-20T02:00:02.907Z She wears the coarsest sackcloth, and often, they say, sleeps on ashes. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z In all probability he would have suffered exile—sackcloth and ashes for his huge misdeed. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z At a diet held in 822, at Attigny, in France, he appeared publicly in the sackcloth and ashes of a repentant sinner, and made open confession of his misdeeds. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z It was not long before the party of progress by murder and revolution cast off the sackcloth it had donned on the deaths of Mr. Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Henry, who had always loved his son, forgave him readily, and the prince—almost passionate in his sorrow—died on sackcloth and ashes as an atonement for his sins. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z The city article of the Nineveh Times, if such a paper existed, would probably have described "sackcloth firm, with a tendency to rise." A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z When a wife is prematurely torn from her home, the only proper attitude for her husband is to sit in sackcloth and ashes. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Remorse was his portion, and he was in truth repenting in sackcloth and ashes. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z But I think temperance in beer, like temperance in clothes, is at once a more rational and a higher virtue either than sackcloth or water.” The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Notwithstanding she may still be covered with sackcloth, the days of her mourning have an end. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z Now you’ve learned, and you can go around here in sackcloth and ashes and you will be the ‘freshmen’s handsome president’ still. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z That is at football, by the way, not just the nation's game but its sackcloth and ashes, its cat-o'-nine-tails, its hemlock on the bedside table. Wales join the queue to give England's divine right a real kicking 2011-03-22T00:06:27Z Next followed the hangman; and last of all were seen, in the midst of the guards and grandees, about forty persons clad in sackcloth, on which were painted the figures of flames and devils. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Sure, we have as a nation sinned— Let every heart its folly own, And sackcloth, as a girdle, bind, And mourn our glorious Union gone! Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z Cowdery says he is not donning sackcloth and ashes and attempting to soothe popular resentment of the City by discovering the joys of philanthropy. Insurance tycoon Clive Cowdery goes on a mission to help the working poor 2011-02-28T07:00:14Z Seating himself at the door of the tent in sackcloth and ashes, he sent in two friends, who came, according to the custom of the country, to serve as mediators. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Whether I indulge in poor jokes or sit in sackcloth and ashes, the confounded fact remains the same. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z "You don't mean to say she is wearing sackcloth and the willow, and all that sort of thing, for Arlington all this time?" in a tone of astonishment largely flavored with contempt. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z "Let him lie in sackcloth, and by the austerity of his life make amends for the offence of his past pleasures," says St. Jerome. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z Then arose a great cry from all the town and the mountain, and a rending of garments and a weeping in sackcloth. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Heads were close shaven, temples scarified; and those immediately about the royal person were clothed in sackcloth and ashes. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z But if you ever venture to come on such an iniquitous errand as now brought you, by the Great Jehovah, you shall repent in sackcloth and ashes! A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z Since then, in sackcloth and ashes, he has meditated on myriad errors, wrong directions and triangulations that blurred not only the message but the purpose, finding reasons why so few voted Labour last May. Ed Balls the bruiser is the man to confront these Tory lies 2011-01-21T20:00:00Z O king, I know why Mordecai is late, He sits once more beside the palace gate, In sackcloth and bemoans his fate. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z When in later times new theological doctrines were superimposed on this mysticism of Celtic Christianity, the Sacred Fires were buried in ashes, and the Light and Beauty of the pagan world obscured with sackcloth. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Mourning relatives threw themselves in sackcloth at the imperial footstool, and cried aloud for the blood of the prisoner. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z It was also customary to abstain from ornaments, to rend the clothing, and to put on filthy garments of sackcloth. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z He was a sad scapegrace, and no pattern to the rising generation; his back knew no sackcloth, and his shoes no peas; but he died penitent. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Haman Not only in this city, but, my spouse, In every province of the king, the Jews In sackcloth mourn because of Haman's might. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z “Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z I say we have been tricked, and the sooner we repent in sackcloth and ashes the better.” The Mynns' Mystery 2010-12-20T17:12:18.180Z Three days earlier Woods, wearing his Nike-branded sackcloth and ashes, had sat in the same seat and attempted to convince the watching world he was a changed man in the aftermath of scandal. Woods slammed by Augusta chairman 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z "Was not the sin sweet for which I am now in sackcloth and ashes?" The Undying Past If the cloak drive the shawl from the promenade, Paisley and Bolton may go in sackcloth. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Not the first saint who has carried the world beneath his sackcloth. A Little World Causing his soldiers to array themselves in sackcloth, he made them pray to Jehovah. Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) We were to go in sackcloth and ashes and scourge our bodies and souls. The Undying Past The heavens themselves seemed covered with thick darkness, and the green earth with sackcloth and ashes. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician They put sackcloth on their bodies, and sat in ashes. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z And ever since he tells his beads, And sackcloth lieth next his skin, And nightly his frail body bleeds With knotted cord that intercedes With Christ for deadly sin. The Coast of Bohemia Had any one ever been disinclined to believe in Mr. Crockett's genius, he must have recanted and repented in sackcloth and ashes after enjoying 'Sweetheart Travellers.' Left on the Prairie Thou shalt moan and beat thy breast in sackcloth and ashes, because of thy fault, for it stinks before heaven. The Undying Past She was approaching that stage of discipline at which ashes become pleasant eating, and sackcloth is grateful to the skin. Rachel Ray Disguised in his sackcloth gown and girdle, few would have recognised the once magnificent knight. Glories of Spain Should he wander about in the desert all his life long in sackcloth and ashes, and turn his back upon all the happiness of existence? In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. Yes, Mr. Thorndyke had been a fool, and was repenting in sackcloth and ashes. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir At their head walked the consuls, barefooted, with halters around their necks, and clothed in sackcloth. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. In ordering his repulse she had done a deed of which she had by no means anticipated the consequences, and now she repented in the sackcloth and ashes of a sorrow-stricken spirit. Rachel Ray I don’t believe a man who is guilty of this sin is ever going to see the kingdom of God unless he repents in sackcloth and ashes, and does all he can to make restitution. Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments "What crime have I committed, that I should spend the rest of my days in sackcloth and ashes!" Faith and Unfaith What do you suppose those Virginia girls were going to do about it, put on sackcloth and ashes? From Bull Run to Appomattox "Nothing but make confession in sackcloth and ashes and pay what I have to pay," I answered gloomily. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Thespis wears a custom-made coat of many colors, but his undershirt is sackcloth. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole He is to have a heavy hauberk immovably riveted on his bare flesh, and with sackcloth for an overcoat to visit Rome and beg the Pope's forgiveness. A Short History of French Literature “It will show how we despise him for his disgraceful conduct, and make him the sooner come creeping to our knees in sackcloth and ashes.” Blind Policy Well, it was sackcloth they wore, and many of their treasures were in ashes, but their spirits were unbroken. From Bull Run to Appomattox Her heart is broken; she lays aside the vestments of a noblewoman, and clothes herself in sackcloth and ashes. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) I never meaned to make you look sorrowful——’ Bunny Lewknor in his sackcloth petticoats burst through the birch scrub wiping his forehead. Rewards and Fairies Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. The Bible Story But the days had glided on, and Chester had bought no sackcloth and had not told the cook to sift him any ashes. Blind Policy A whole year of sackcloth and ashes would not be penance for such iniquity. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance If ever a Lent should have been kept in the sackcloth of humiliation and the ashes of despair, it is that which has just passed. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Cattiwow strode ahead in his sackcloth woodman’s petticoat, belted at the waist with a leather strap; and when he turned and grinned, his red lips showed under his sackcloth-coloured beard. Rewards and Fairies And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. The Bible Story The Kentucky Derby on Wednesday last was won by a Kentucky horse, bred, owned and trained, while Memphis and the Southern talent are clothed in sackcloth and ashes. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 Lying on the dry ground did not affect her limbs, and the rough sackcloth that she wore failed to make her skin either foul or rough. Women of Early Christianity "Yes, in my beautiful new overcoat," answered Caleb, glancing to where a roughly-made garment of sackcloth was hung up to dry. Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read Already some of the chief Dutch cities had been punished for resisting the Emperor's authority, and their burghers sentenced to kneel in sackcloth and beg him to spare their homes from destruction. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 And she made her a tent upon the top of her house, and put on sackcloth; and the garments of her widowhood were upon her. The Bible Story Now the Jews, after the death of their relatives, wore sackcloth during their time of mourning, which lasted from seven to forty days. Maids Wives and Bachelors It was failing her, and in sackcloth and ashes she was mourning it. The Vision of Elijah Berl "Then," said Hussain, "my misfortune is great; permit me and my daughter to go home, and mourn the loss of your favour in sackcloth and ashes." Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Don't delude yourself with the notion that she is sitting down in sackcloth and ashes with her past! Ancestors A Novel And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. The Bible Story As long as a girl’s vanity does not derive its inspiration from self-love there is no necessity for her to wear sackcloth to humiliate it. Maids Wives and Bachelors That's sackcloth, dear," she said, "an' ye can aither sit in th' ashes in them or wear them in earning another pair! My Lady of the Chimney Corner Passion Week, in London, is distinctly an ascetic period; there is really an approach to sackcloth and ashes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. She obtained an interview with him, and to test her resolution he told her to dress in penitential sackcloth and beg alms for the poor in the streets of Assisi. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes. The Bible Story ‘A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white skin.’ Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part I have repented of it in sackcloth and ashes. A Mad Love Whenever Henry dwelt for a time in sackcloth, Jimmie did not patronize him at all. The Monster and Other Stories Now hundreds of thousands are weeping in sackcloth and ashes over the untimely end of hundreds of thousands slain in battle! A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and humbled himself. The Bible Story If I could only have my shroud now, I would not make lace a desideratum; serge or sackcloth would be welcome. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part I assure you that if you marry this farmer's niece now, in ten years' time you will repent it in sackcloth and ashes. A Mad Love When Mattathias and his sons heard what was being done at Jerusalem, they clothed themselves in sackcloth and wept, praying, and fasting continually, beseeching God to forgive His people, and to put away their sins. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World Miss Juliarawkins, summoned by a whistle through the keyhole, looked a good deal better in sackcloth and ashes than she had done in several discordant colours. When Ghost Meets Ghost Here he met with no resistance; but, on the contrary, an affecting appeal to his mercy in the spectacle of the citizens coming out before him, dressed in sackcloth, in token of submission. Pope Adrian IV An Historical Sketch Rise, worship, bless Him, in this sackcloth spun, As in that purple.’” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Then you may retire to your corner, and wear sackcloth and ashes. A Castle in Spain A Novel But one night in a saloon under the influence of drink I committed a crime, and I was sent to the penitentiary, where I repented in sackcloth and ashes. Sowing and Reaping She was one of those that held with making the same sackcloth and ashes do for two. When Ghost Meets Ghost Let no one flatter himself that he is going into the kingdom of God who does not repent of this sin in sackcloth and ashes. Men of the Bible Still their unnatural burden bumped from side to side; and now the head would be laid, as if in confidence, upon their shoulders, and now the drenching sackcloth would flap icily about their faces. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) He himself confessed them again and again, and repented in sackcloth and ashes. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series If I am a means of ultimate loss to him, I shall sit in sackcloth.” The Brownings Their Life and Art Sailcloth and coal-dust being our equivalent for sackcloth and ashes, the steamer looks mournful indeed as she drives southward towards the Cape. An Ocean Tramp Do�a Luz had vowed to wear sackcloth for six months if her dear patron saint, Mar�a de la Luz, would but hear her petition. The Missourian Nothing would astonish me less than to see Archie himself in sackcloth and ashes one of these days, and I do believe that it's the thing he's afraid of himself. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The people mourn secretly, clothe themselves in sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century He covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Bible Romances First Series Alcove-like cells were hewn into the rock; here, on a couch of damp, half-rotten straw, covered with a sackcloth, the unfortunate sufferers were to repose from the day's work. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 It is of that which shall stand when they shall melt with fervent heat, and light the firmament when the sun is as sackcloth of hair. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) When you become General I will mourn my cruelty in sackcloth and ashes. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America Giving a hitch to her sackcloth, she departed and banged the door. A Great Man A Frolic What an enormous consumption of sackcloth there must have been! Bible Romances First Series I own my fault and put on the sackcloth and ashes of confession, and, after that, surely you will give me absolution. Is He Popenjoy? He shall go, and he shall beg forgiveness for his suspicions, in sackcloth and ashes. The Princess Virginia They had put upon her a garment of coarse sackcloth. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales But the depth of the valley is an embroidered sash of bloom laid across the sackcloth of the desert. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit So Hermenegild learnt to despise the earthly kingdom, and to yearn after the heavenly, while he lay in bonds and sackcloth. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I She did not believe that Mary had done anything to merit expulsion from the family; but she did think that her return to it should be accompanied by sackcloth and ashes. Is He Popenjoy? Lead on, Mr. Lincoln, attended by Seward and Halleck—all in sackcloth and ashes. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 In the same museum is a sackcloth, or gown of repentance, formerly used at the parish church of West Calder. Bygone Punishments The time seems to have come for this nation to sit down in sackcloth and ashes. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Nineteen subdued penitents, clothed in mental sackcloth and ashes, went down to breakfast next morning. The Madcap of the School And if we are to go in sackcloth all winter I shall die of the megrims. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia "Phil says one may go in sackcloth and ashes the remainder of the year, but we must be fine for Goodwood," she said. The Marriage of Elinor But these heroic women did not sit down in sackcloth and ashes to weep over the cruel verdict. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III And now every ear of it would have been repenting in sackcloth and ashes if it had been qualified by Nature to know how little it would fetch per bushel. Somehow Good Why do ye not, ye glorious mountains, put on sackcloth, and mourn with the mourning nations beneath you? Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge I am sincerely sorry for the wrong I meditated against you—I have since repented in sackcloth and ashes. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days, clothed in sackcloth.” The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity I am glad to see that those who have been willing to wear the sackcloth and ashes are beginning to receive the crowns of the olive and the bay upon their consecrated heads. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He could not imagine her, no matter how grievously she might sin, as meekly repenting in sackcloth and ashes. Otherwise Phyllis On the right and left of him stood two hideous figures, holding candles and crucifixes, and enveloped from head to foot in sackcloth. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Afterwards she made him show her all his clever contrivances for packing-case furniture, and admired his sackcloth curtain, barrel washhand stand, and made him feel vigorous and hopeful. The Rhodesian While the beast was in power and the woman in silence the two witnesses could only testify in sackcloth, which was 1260 years. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity He'd made himself a prickly shirt of sackcloth and had smeared his black head and brown face with gray ashes. It, and Other Stories Her temperament was not one to let her sit down in sackcloth and ashes to weep over the ruins of romance. Making People Happy There is a grace of carriage that will make purple of sackcloth. Anthony Lyveden And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them. The Story Of The Prophet Jonas A sackcloth dress is one donned in a time of grief or lamentation. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Priests Lament like a virgin Girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth! Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature The four wives of the deceased and the members of his family were accordingly dressed in the coarsest of white sackcloth, with ashes sprinkled over their faces, and they walked behind the hearse, howling. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions You are like me—you and I are made of silk, Barty—as other men are made of sackcloth; and their love, of ashes; and their joys, of dust! The Martian Gird ye with sackcloth for this, 8 Howl and lament, For the glow of the wrath of the Lord Turns not from us. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 The Word and Spirit of God, because of the sad state of the church, were draped in mourning or sackcloth. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Heaven without God!—it would send a thrill of dismay through the burning ranks of angels and archangels; it would dim every eye, and hush every harp, and change the whitest robe into sackcloth. The Faithful Promiser Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness, to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. Memories of Bethany Penitents clothed in sackcloth go through the streets, scourging themselves; and the Indians, in their native language, utter prayers and offer up vows to Heaven. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Daughter of My people, gird on thee sackcloth 26 And wallow in ashes! Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 In the taking of these degrees the penitents were compelled to appear in sackcloth and ashes, and in some places the men were obliged to shave their heads and the women to wear veils. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity I would live as the Sibyls that gave good counsel and lived in rocky cells in sackcloth. Privy Seal His Last Venture And I will give charge to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Put off the sackcloth and ashes, or rather the oilskins and fish-scales, and travel with us for a while. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good "We must see and move the sackcloth and ashes a little further off," said his lordship. The Vicar of Bullhampton Imagine if you can the moral perversity of a young woman who never regrets a witty deception or a graceful subterfuge, but repents sometimes in sackcloth and ashes for her truth-telling. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Friars of the sack, forsooth, because they were clothed in sackcloth! The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The finishing of their testimony, refers to the termination of the sackcloth period,—twelve hundred and sixty years from A. D. 533; i.e. in 1793,—if the former date is correct. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse We have doffed the cap and bells, and gone into sackcloth and ashes. The Hero of Garside School And so, lying humbly upon a bed of sackcloth, St. Martin, Apostle of France, finished the work that God had given him to do, and passed into the glory and eternal rest of the Blessed. Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light We may not wail aloud for thee, my son, nor rend our garments, nor put on sackcloth, nor pour dust upon our heads. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History He would wear his sackcloth, and rarely change it, though it caked into knots which chafed him fiercely. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.... A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse He beheld us, not as the Ninevites once were, in sackcloth and ashes, but recklessly violating all his holy laws. Thoughts on Missions They may repair their garments with sackcloth and other remnants. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Here a day of solemn humiliation was appointed by the Asmonean chief; he and his warriors fasted, put on sackcloth, and united in prayer to the God of Hosts. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History He gave exact details of how he was to be laid on ashes on the bare earth at the last with no extra sackcloth. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England This period of one thousand two hundred and sixty years, is not the whole time in which the witnesses prophesy, but marks the duration of their prophesying in sackcloth. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse In her anger and her sympathy she had shown it; and from that day to this she had repented in the roughness of sackcloth and the bitterness of ashes. The Bertrams Manfred himself, that wondrous conception of genius, whose lot was cast amid all the sublimities of nature, despite his pride and his strength of will, yet was made to wear the sackcloth of penance. My Recollections of Lord Byron Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. God's Plan with Men Goodbye to beef, butter, and good red wheat; white corn, sad vegetables, cold water, sackcloth take their place, with fasts on bread and water, and festivals mitigated by fish. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England False doctrines obscuring the Bible, and persecuting enactments oppressing the church, clothed the witnesses in sackcloth; and thus only did they testify, till the power of the papacy was broken. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you, they would long ago have changed their minds, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. The revelator thus describes the first of the signs to precede the second advent: “There was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan He will come back in sackcloth and ashes; he is just that sort, you know,—thunder and lightning, fire and tow. Vagabondia 1884 She is known to confess, and is suspected of wearing sackcloth. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis It is a survival of the biblical "sackcloth and ashes." An African Adventure Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago in sackcloth and ashes. The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. “They shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The promise is made, "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." The Ordinance of Covenanting She was already dressed in the sackcloth robe of the penitents condemned to the stake, and her poor grey hairs were without covering. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Of course she was in grey—that was in the nature of a certainty on such an occasion, but she might have been in sackcloth for all the attention Vane paid to her clothes. Mufti He became a saint, after the notions of the age; that is, he fasted, wore sackcloth, lived on roots and herbs, practised austerities, retired to lonely places, and spent his time in contemplation and prayer. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Under her rule the witnesses prophesied, “clothed in sackcloth.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan My father was a steady, industrious, Christian man, who had repented in sackcloth and ashes the errors of his lifetime. Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk She looked wretchedly haggard and careworn in her sackcloth robe, with her short-cut grey hairs left bare. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 He therefore bought a piece of sackcloth, poorly woven, and filled with prickly wooden fibres. The Autobiography of St. Ignatius But no, while there was hope Lucia waited; now that he is gone irrevocably, she bestirs herself instead of donning sackcloth. Floyd Grandon's Honor And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.... The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan In complete change of raiment, smelling like a field of new-mown hay, and figuratively clothed in sackcloth and ashes, he entered. Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes “It is the witch! it is the witch!” again cried the crowd, as the sackcloth garment of the unhappy Magdalena showed itself above the stream. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 It was just a shut lid and its lashes, Just a few hours in a train, And I sorrow in sackcloth and ashes Longing to see her again. Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II Is this to sanctify a day to the Lord,—when ye do not so much as the people who bowed down their head for a day, and spread sackcloth under them? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The period when the two witnesses were to prophesy clothed in sackcloth, ended in 1798. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan I dare say before the year is out I shall repent in sackcloth and ashes that we ever bought the house. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 His parcel proved to be rough sackcloth, on the outside of which a paper was pinned. The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance “Why! if Grace had a chance to be class president I’d go into sackcloth and ashes during the rest of the year.” A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall No sound but the Miserere would ever have broken the chill echoes of my lonely cell, nor should any raiment softer than sackcloth have come near my seared and blighted heart!” Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century It is more palatable to human nature to do penance than to renounce sin; it is easier to mortify the flesh by sackcloth and nettles and galling chains than to crucify fleshly lusts. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan If I put on sackcloth and cast myself among the ashes, who will take up the standard and head the battle? Romola Nothing but barons of beef & turkeys would go down with him to the great greasing & detriment of his new sackcloth bib and tucker. A Masque of Days From the Last Essays of Elia: Newly Dressed & Decorated Had any one ever been disinclined to believe in Mr. Crockett's genius, he must have recanted and repented in sackcloth and ashes after enjoying Sweetheart Travellers. Under the Rebel's Reign “I should think it would get seared, with nothing but sackcloth,” put in the irrepressible little Lady of Eu. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century I heard Hope reading about the people who put on ash-cloth and sashes—I mean sackcloth and ashes whenever any one of their family died, so's the angels would let the soul into heaven. At the Little Brown House Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth about his waist, and mourned for his son many days. The Children's Bible Put sackcloth on, be crowned with powdery ash, Be common stuff. Look! We Have Come Through! Clothed in the sackcloth of regret, she said, She long had wept the past; but for my sake She now would cast it off, and live for me. Stories in Verse That is my sackcloth, and it is very sore. Orley Farm It doesn't need sackcloth and ashes to carry our loved ones home, dear. At the Little Brown House In every province, wherever the king's command went, there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and wailing among the Jews; and many of them sat in sackcloth and ashes. The Children's Bible Put ashes on your head, put sackcloth on And learn to serve. Look! We Have Come Through! It was when the King of Nineveh arose from his throne and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes as a sign of his repentance, that his people repented. The Calvary Road It all was as she said, and he could not bid her even try to free herself from that sackcloth and from those ashes. Orley Farm Talisso was seized and stripped of his royal robes; a width of sackcloth was wrapped about his body, and with a rope round his neck he was led to the Mound of Coronation. A Child's Book of Saints She sent garments for Mordecai to put on, that he might take off his sackcloth; but he would not accept them. The Children's Bible Its adherents wear sackcloth and eat out of wooden basins. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 Best leave those fellows to their ministerial sackcloth, without questioning the quality of the flax from which it was spun. The Brentons He could not bring himself to tell her that the sackcloth need not be sore to her poor lacerated body, nor the ashes bitter between her teeth. Orley Farm It was not intended that men should walk perpetually in sackcloth and ashes because of the sorrows that surround them. The Lifeboat And as soon as Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the temple of Jehovah. The Children's Bible These dark lines of human nature were sometimes prominent, even when the monk was clothed in sackcloth and ashes; and are markedly visible in the life of William de Trompington. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages At a short distance from the door, a lad of some fifteen years old, with no covering but a piece of ragged sackcloth round the loins, was crouched up in a corner, seemingly asleep. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem They bid those who repent put on sackcloth, and cover themselves with ashes. Orley Farm On the last night many Shiite Moslems walk to the mosque in bare feet, wearing sackcloth. Modern Persia And when word came to the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, dressed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. The Children's Bible In its streets are "penitents," wandering, in sackcloth and sandals, with a downcast look and a rope for self-castigation, among soldiers in new French uniforms and ladies in the latest Paris fashions. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited "There is time yet for the city to repent, in sackcloth and ashes, for its sins; and to come to such terms with the Romans as may save the Temple." For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem And you repented in sackcloth and ashes, and were ready to make a sacrifice of yourself by way of reparation? The Heart of Una Sackville He discovered his error, no doubt, in sackcloth and ashes, poor fellow; but mercifully he had not to endure many years of disenchantment. The Fortunes of the Farrells Let both man and beast put on sackcloth and let them cry earnestly to God; let them turn each from his evil way and from the deeds of violence which they are doing. The Children's Bible She would grow thin and hollow-eyed, and her parents, looking on, would repent their cruelty in sackcloth and ashes. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story I know of a dressmaker who could make sackcloth elegant. Betty Trevor The new dresses hung neglected on their pegs, and Rhoda put on a silk blouse with her serge skirt, and walked down to supper in mental sackcloth and ashes. Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story The mission of ours was accompanied with these Churches sitting in sackcloth; the reception of yours was as the holding forth the scepter of life. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and ate no food. The Children's Bible She would have liked to see her in sackcloth for a while, and to enjoy her own moral elevation by such a contrast. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 The gay shirt and doublet hung like grey sackcloth on his limbs. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess Let me go home in silence, to reflection, perhaps to sackcloth and ashes!' The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 But providentiall exemption of us hereby from the late warres and temptations of either party we account as a favour from God; the former cloathes us with sackcloth, the latter with innocency. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 And he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebnah, the scribe and the oldest of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah, the prophet. The Children's Bible It was the last day of Carnival, and to-morrow—sackcloth and ashes. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Nevertheless, many a victim was hurried to an untimely grave, many a family sat in sackcloth and ashes for a departed member. Rabbi and Priest A Story Then drew near the servant who had wasted the morning, but had repented of his sloth, and had fought his way through the crowds, and had at last bought the sackcloth. The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes Like bulrush low to bow His sorrow-stricken head, With sackcloth for his inner vest, And ashes round him spread? Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination And he went as far as the king's gate, for no one could enter the gate clothed with sackcloth. The Children's Bible He must now rise, shake off the sackcloth and ashes from his spirit, and put on the beautiful garments of true manhood. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author His under garment was sackcloth over which he wore a white coat of sheep-skin, with a girdle. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March F. What were the sackcloth and ashes which he bought? The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes The clothing that hung on the wall was covered with sackcloth and the tightly drawn window curtains were banded with black. The Coming of the King And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they ordered a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. The Children's Bible The financier's irritation was increased by this unexpectedly reckless attitude on the part of the man who should, he felt, be abased in sackcloth before him. White Ashes His clothing was sackcloth, his food barley-bread, upon which he usually strewed ashes, and his drink was water. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March He had birth, breeding, abilities; why must he wrap himself in monkish sackcloth, in monkish celibacy? Jane Journeys On Even before the Master's teaching brought me wisdom did my heart oft question the gain of lamentation and disfigurement, the soiling of the hair with ashes and the itching of the flesh with sackcloth. The Coming of the King David prayed to God for the child, and ate no food but went in and lay all night in sackcloth upon the earth. The Children's Bible Humility was Reynolds's highest card, and when out among the people he was always figuratively clothed in sackcloth and ashes. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective SHE was a rich Roman lady; after the death of her husband she mortified her flesh by wearing rough sackcloth, passed whole nights in prayer, and by humility seemed every one's menial servant. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Then she forgot her sackcloth, for, according to the Frenchman, this was old Grisnez, pushing its inquiring nose into the sea; and beyond loomed the tall lighthouse of Calais. The Guests Of Hercules Some had cymbals, some flutes, some pieces of sackcloth which they put over their heads before turning their faces to the wall. The Coming of the King I didn't mean to be irritating about the moving, but I was, and my soul has been wearing sackcloth and ashes ever since because I was so nasty. The Opinions of a Philosopher She had made a mistake, and the days were coming in which she would have to own to herself that she had done so in sackcloth, and to repent with ashes. Can You Forgive Her? His life was most austere, his clothes being sackcloth, and the same in summer as in winter. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March It should likewise be remembered that an injunction was given to the bishops of the first century "to use hospitality," a proof that the primitive church was not in all respects clad in sackcloth. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Neither sackcloth nor ashes have I put on. The Coming of the King It was a dull world, and all the tigers I had ever shot were mounted on sackcloth, or stuffed with ashes. Set in Silver She knew that she had been wrong in both, and was undergoing repentance with very bitter inward sackcloth. Can You Forgive Her? She resided at Bourges, wore only sackcloth, and addicted herself entirely to the exercises of mortification and prayer, and to works of charity, in which she employed all her great revenues. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Here are no sackcloth and ashes, camel's hair and leathern girdles; this prophet's chamber has its silks and sattins, stuffed cushions and curtains, screens and wrapping gowns. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three-score days, clothed in sackcloth.” Some Answered Questions The lightning bolt of it consumed the world and struck the hearts of its inhabitants, so that they put on sackcloth and poured ashes on their heads. Bahíyyih Khánum In the threatened calamity of the Jews, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and wept. The Friendships of Women He and his few disciples had no other beds but straw of sackcloth spread on the ground. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March It were sheer impertinence to finger the texture of a zealot's sackcloth. The Henchman Clothed in sackcloth, he spent his days in torture, struggling with temptation, and haunted by visions of demons. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Should not ye have sought unto Him first, with ropes about your necks, with sackcloth upon your loins, and with tears in your eyes? The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Italy had been repenting in sackcloth and ashes her defeat of the previous fall. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War What austerities do anchorets practise to tame their bodies, by perpetual fasts, watching, and sackcloth! yet never suffer even visits of persons of the other sex. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March I've waited for my kingdom," she declared; "waited for it in sackcloth and ashes. The Henchman The Hebrew would sit in sackcloth and ashes to atone for his offences and to induce the proper spiritual submission. Platform Monologues Failing to find peace in this, he penetrated into the depths of a wilderness, clothed himself in sackcloth, and lived on the coarsest fare, away from the abodes of man. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. In sackcloth and ashes, let us confess the truth—we English led them astray: on us the shame; to us the dishonour. Post-Prandial Philosophy His clothing was a single sackcloth, and his sustenance barley-bread and water. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March My broker, Mr. X., came to me, quite submissive, doing penance in sackcloth and ashes. Dr. Dumany's Wife Why their stage curtain consists of a large piece of threadbare sackcloth pasted over with tricolored paper on which they have painted the national coat of arms. The Poor Plutocrats I know that now, and I repent my sin in sackcloth and ashes. Phineas Redux I returned in silence, as a simple man of experience, covered in sackcloth, exhausted in body, disappointed in mind, without friends, without a home, and with comparatively meagre funds. The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. There were also hermits on the same mountains who lay on ashes, wore sackcloth, and shut themselves up in frightful caverns, practising more extraordinary austerities. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Happily, with you such moods were of the rarest: you would have been more than mortal had not your soul at times sat in sackcloth and ashes. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Mordecai, the Jew, still sat at the king's gate—probably, still wrapped in sackcloth. Notable Women of Olden Time All the world was rejoicing, Neville Jones was prostrated, Ireland had cast aside her sackcloth, and was thenceforth to be rich, loyal, and happy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Therefore I will show the tokens of mine anger; I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and make sackcloth their covering. Pascal's Pensées His bed was sackcloth spread on the floor in his oratory. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March In verity it was a scene of velvet and rags, satin and sackcloth, riches and poverty: Lazarus looking longingly at Dives, and Dives going on his way unheeding. Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence It seems to me that, after all this time, I might be allowed to leave off the sackcloth and brush the ashes out of my hair. The Helpmate But no one se scandalise at their antecedents—neither is it proper to repent in sackcloth and ashes, or to confess sins, except to God alone. Letters from Egypt "O, my poor, dear husband, have I so forgotten you?" she cries in mental sackcloth and ashes. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future He was possessed of no other earthly goods but a cloak and a piece of sackcloth which he wore, and a little vessel out of which he both ate and drank. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March I dreamt that the heavens were beggared And angels went chanting for bread, And the cherubs were sewed up in sackcloth, And Satan anointed his head. Eyes of Youth A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O. She was like a pretty woman who had suddenly put on a suit of sackcloth and stuck revolvers in her belt. Tales Of Hearsay My love, a darken'd conscience clothes The world in sackcloth; and, I fear, The stain of life this new heart loathes, Still clouds my sight; but thine is clear. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art They make their matrimonial selections like the blindest of bats, the most egregious of fools, and then, when the mischief is done, go in for unending sackcloth, or a divorce court. Princess The more she humbled herself, the more she was exalted by God; and while she preferred sackcloth to purple and diadems, she became the invisible glory of heaven. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March In the Sixteenth Century, however, people took the sackcloth from the saints and dressed them in flesh. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers He put on sackcloth, lived on bread and water, and spent his nights in prayer, tearing his flesh with a scourge. The Leading Facts of English History Bundles of every shape and size were on their shoulders: some looked huge, and were tied up in sackcloth; others were covered with rich cloth, and bound with silken cords. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 Then was the disciples' joy turned into mourning, and for garments of praise did they put on ashes and sackcloth. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Thus the prophet Isaiah is directed to loose the sackcloth from his loins, and put off his shoe from his foot, walking naked and barefoot. Companion to the Bible But who would go thither and peril his or her life for the good of the city in sackcloth and ashes? Angel Agnes The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport And I suppose we put on the sackcloth and ashes, when the striped bug came at four o'clock, a.m., and we watched the tender leaves, and watered night and morning the feeble plants. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.—Lytton. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age King Achab was not disposed to be wanton in his flesh, when he fasted and went clothed in sackcloth and all besprent with ashes. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens Had I preached in heathen lands, or in the ruined seaports of Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross He bade them disrobe the prisoner and clothe him in sackcloth. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans Of sackcloth vile Their covering seem'd; and, on his shoulder, one Did stay another, leaning; and all lean'd Against the cliff. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 "Sit in sackcloth and ashes, and hear Brooks lecture on the poor," he answered, lightly. A Prince of Sinners It was found after his death that he was in the habit of mortifying himself with a shirt of sackcloth. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business While the Gentiles tread the holy city under foot, God gives power to his two Witnesses, and they prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Happy if they do not lose heart, and step downward from the fire to ashes—reinforced with sackcloth. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar His face was white as death and set sternly before him, and his dishevelled hair and golden beard flowed wildly over the rough coarseness of his long sackcloth garments. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster A man may "bow down his head as a bulrush," or fast, or clothe himself in sackcloth, when he is an utter stranger to that "repentance to salvation not to be repented of." The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution By heavens! you shall repent of this in sackcloth and ashes! Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Still more blessed are they who give abundant thought to their choice, for they may not wear the sackcloth of discomfort nor scatter the ashes of burned money. The Complete Home The other Ghibelline chiefs were similarly butchered, the horrible scenes of bloodshed so working on the feelings of the susceptible Italians that many of them did penance at the grave of Alberich, arrayed in sackcloth. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German Alas! we have no sackcloth, but we are in ashes. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad Unconquered captive!—close thine eye, And draw the ashen sackcloth o'er, And in thy speechless woe deplore The fate that would not let thee die! Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War "Please God, I shall live long enough," she said, "to thrust Mother Sub-Prioress into a sackcloth shroud; also, to crack nuts upon the sepulchre of Sister Mary Rebecca." The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Many who had taken an open stand on that side returned to the fold of the Democracy in sackcloth and ashes,—upon bended knees, pleading for mercy, forgiveness and for charitable forbearance. The Facts of Reconstruction May he who spawned that lie to stir our people's hearts to boundless wrath against this falling man live to repent in sackcloth and in tears the evil deed so done… Staked it for what? Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front They also appear dark, yet not, like the former, as clouds, but as if clothed with sackcloth. Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There It is gone—it is gone—and now for humility and repentance—now for sackcloth and ashes. Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two And, indeed, sackcloth and ashes as they are, the isles are not perhaps unmitigated gloom. The Piazza Tales The somber habit of an order has replaced scarlet and gold; and sackcloth, satin. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man People tell us that the doctrine of a fall, an earth which has departed from God, a race which has rebelled, is a gloomy and dark one, covering the face of life with sackcloth. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII If it is not in its fiftieth thousand the intelligent masses ought to go into a month's sackcloth. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Then the half-frenzied shape of Mary Dyer, the persecuted Quaker woman, clad in sackcloth and ashes, would have rested in it for a moment. True Stories of History and Biography Thither came a party of big marines and a small Irish terrier, bringing with them a long naval gun, which they covered with a camouflage of sackcloth and ashes and let off at intervals. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 How many ever afterwards deplore their errors in sackcloth and ashes, and conduct themselves in the most correct and unexceptionable manner? Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America Blessed the mourning, which prepares for the festal garland and the oil of gladness and the robe of praise, instead of ashes on the head and sackcloth on the spirit! Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII I am sometimes clad in rags, sometimes in sackcloth, sometimes in raiments of fine texture, sometimes in deer-skins, sometimes in robes of the costliest kind. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 This Mary Dyer had entered the mint-master's dwelling, clothed in sackcloth and ashes, and seated herself in our great chair, with a sort of dignity and state. True Stories of History and Biography The children were dressed in white, the men and women in sackcloth, and all were barefooted. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The prince delayed not to avail himself of this grace; and the next morning presented himself at the inner gate of the castle, barefoot and in sackcloth, where he remained, fasting, from daybreak to sunset. The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century So the people of Ninoveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII He sought by priestcraft, and penances, and monastic vows, and garments of sackcloth, to efface the stains of a soul crimsoned with crime. The Empire of Russia Some one—it may have been in unthinking mercy—had drawn down the sackcloth over her stripes, and the coarse stuff, irritating the raw, was as a shirt of fire. Lady Good-for-Nothing It is farther to be observed that during the whole antichristian defection, God's "two witnesses were to prophecy clothed in sackcloth." Sermons on Various Important Subjects The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes. The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century Rich garments are put aside for sackcloth, and flowing locks drop off and leave bald heads. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The patriarchs rent their garments in token of the misery that lacerated their souls: then rags and tatters were ennobled by sorrow—there was a deep sentiment in sackcloth and ashes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Almost you could guess them passing down her flesh beneath the sackcloth, rippling over its torn and purple ridges. Lady Good-for-Nothing No matter what the material, gold or copper, Saxony or sackcloth, the die imparts a value to the one, and the shears to the other. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 I dare say Silas is sorry, but I don't think he is in sackcloth and ashes. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Howard, dear, I—I'm sitting in sackcloth and ashes. The Taming of Red Butte Western Here you are, with ten men's brains, and you sit—I don't know how you sit—in sackcloth, clearly, but whether for heaven or for Claudia I don't know. Father Stafford "I suppose we shall have to dress in sackcloth and dine on lentils," said Maria Dolores. My Friend Prospero And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake: and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13. Notes on the Apocalypse I heard afterward that Jean had swathed the bell in a piece of sackcloth, and that the children had been sent off early every morning into the woods. The Doctor's Dilemma From sackcloth couch the Monk arose, With toil his stiffen'd limbs he rear'd; A hundred years had flung their snows On his thin locks and floating beard. From John O'Groats to Land's End They clothed themselves in sackcloth, and repented truly with tears and fasting, and God had compassion upon them and destroyed Haman. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala "And I hope now that she'll spend the rest of her days in sackcloth—with a scourge," she added. The Necromancers In his letter of April 23, he mentions going to the play immediately after hearing this news, ‘although,’ as he says, ‘he ought to have stayed at home in sackcloth for “unc.”’ Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Then, bidding Dante gaze fixedly, Virgil points out this shadowy host, clothed in sackcloth, sitting back against the rocks, and Dante takes particular note of two figures supporting each other. The Book of the Epic Practically, that is what it amounted to--I admit it in sackcloth and ashes. Lady Merton, Colonist Then shall the cause for which Christ's witnesses testified in sackcloth, and for which chosen martyrs died, gloriously triumph. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony Why sit in sackcloth on account of her early death, when it is appointed unto all men once to die, and with her the grave was swallowed up in victory? Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women But will the flesh be mortified by any real rough sackcloth and ashes? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Soft poet! brushing tears from lilies—this way! and howl in sackcloth and in ashes! Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Disdain the abuses thou hast received: pull down the statue which calls thee immortal: be truly great: tear thy purple, and put on sackcloth. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 And in his curious search, he came upon a hollow, where there was a child, wrapped in a sackcloth and left within a lion's skull. Scorched Earth A prop gave way! crash fell a platform! lo, 'Mid struggling sufferers, hurt to death, she lay! 10Shuddering, they drew her garments off—and found �11A robe of sackcloth� next the smooth, white skin. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems God's Word and Spirit were therefore prophesying, although in an unnatural condition, symbolized by the sackcloth state of the witnesses. The Last Reformation The prophecy of the witnesses in their sackcloth state, hidden away from sight in the wilderness, ends, and they are now brought out into public view—but only to be killed. The Revelation Explained Here, as with spiritual arms, he fortified himself in sackcloth, and spent the vigil of the night. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries It was a baby boy, swaddled in a sackcloth and left in the skull of a lion, by small stream.* Scorched Earth Then I must have a dress to wear, I suppose he would like me to wear sackcloth. Evelyn Innes The temple still remained, and it had devout worshipers; the two witnesses still prophesied, although clothed in sackcloth, an emblem of melancholy and mourning. The Last Reformation V. The next important object in the vision is the "two witnesses" that prophecied in sackcloth. The Revelation Explained Garments of sackcloth disfigure his limbs, yet so he will the sooner be caught up to meet Christ in the clouds. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries He raised his hands to them and the Angels ripped the stinking sackcloth from their victims' bodies and began to bludgeon them. Scorched Earth Her singing sounded like silken raiment among sackcloth, and she lowered her voice, feeling it to be indecorous and out of place in the antique hymn. Evelyn Innes Two men in sackcloth aprons were considering an untrimmed hedge that ran down the hillside and disappeared into mist beside those roarings. A Diversity of Creatures But their numbers were so few, comparatively, that the operations of the two witnesses were greatly limited; hence they are represented as being clothed in sackcloth, a symbol of melancholy and mourning. The Revelation Explained Clad in sackcloth stained by penitential tears, he toiled for his daily bread, and struggled against visions of Roman dancing girls. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries The Bazaar is to be something sublime in its degree, and I shall have a sackcloth feeling all next week. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) It was her stronghold, this figure—she would have been adorable in sackcloth and ashes, she knew, but she preferred a tailor-made. The Lady of Big Shanty That were a wasteful deed Which you'd repent in sackcloth extra rough; For books cost money, and I'm told you care To lay up treasures Here as well as There. Black Beetles in Amber He ever sits on the "stool of repentance," clothing himself in sackcloth and ashes for what he has done or not done. Quit Your Worrying! After a pause, Judith enters slowly, in widow's apparel and sackcloth. Judith, a play in three acts Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith “Also,” said the hermit, “it were wise that ye should wear a sackcloth garment next your skin, for penance;” and in this also did Sir Bors as he was counselled. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights Natural enough, and I'm not going into sackcloth about it. The Pretty Lady We believe in them for the moment, and waste laughter and tears, chaplets and sackcloth, upon them. In the Days of My Youth It seemed as if the trees were shriving after all the green riot of summer, and making ready for sackcloth and ashes. D'Ri and I It did not come to her that she should be in sackcloth and ashes for causing him such woeful pain and misery. Mistress Penwick They are covered with rough coarse sackcloth, a material made of black goats' hair and used for making sacks. The King's Cup-Bearer She would speak of her own dislike of them as of her great sin, of which it was necessary that she should repent in sackcloth and ashes. Mr. Scarborough's Family "How do you wear sackcloth and ashes?" he cried, catching me in his arms as he made the query. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon And the people of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them. The Story of the Prophet Jonas It is the Church that should repent in sackcloth and ashes for permitting such a mockery of marriage. Sex and Common-Sense Jerusalem! and, at the last moment, as he lay in sackcloth and ashes, pronouncing merely these parting words: "Father, after the example of our Divine Master, into Thy hands I commend my spirit!" A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 Every day she went across to the house intent upon doing good offices; and this was the repentance in sackcloth and ashes which she exacted from herself. Mr. Scarborough's Family Whether we blame the belligerents or criticise the Powers or sit in sackcloth and ashes ourselves is absolutely of no consequence at the present moment. Peace Theories and the Balkan War On these days they wore sackcloth, laid themselves in ashes, and sprinkled them on their heads, in token of their great grief and penitence. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832 |
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